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Eelco Dolstra 3f4ed681c2 * Prevent zombies. Previous the SIGCHLD handler only reaped one
zombie at a time, so if multiple children died before the handler
  got to run, some of them would not be cleaned up.
2008-11-14 16:50:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6fedb7aa0f * Restore SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL when running the builder. This prevents
subtle and often hard-to-reproduce bugs where programs in pipes
  either barf with a "Broken pipe" message or not, depending on the
  exact timing conditions.  This particularly happened in GNU M4 (and
  Bison, which uses M4).
2008-11-14 15:46:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a519bb0635 * Some somewhat ad hoc mechanism to allow the build farm to monitor
build progress.
2008-11-12 11:08:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 96598e7b06 * Pass the --no-build-output flag to the daemon. 2008-11-11 15:11:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4166b11a53 * Add /dev/pts to the default nix.conf. 2008-11-11 14:59:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b7c839b4e * Typo. 2008-11-11 14:58:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 709b55ee02 * Put the chroots under /nix/var/nix/chroots to reduce the risk of
disasters involving `rm -rf' on bind mounts.  Will try the
  definitive fix (per-process mounts, apparently possible via the
  CLONE_NEWNS flag in clone()) some other time.
2008-10-29 15:34:48 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès c98ea254dc libstore: Always mount `/dev/pts' individually.
This fixes problems such as Tcl's PTY handling:

  ERROR: The system has no more ptys.  Ask your system administrator to
  create more.
2008-10-16 21:04:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9d6d50269b * Bug fix for building on some old installations (contributed by Pjotr). 2008-10-16 14:16:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fa61ee70ee * Fix `--from-profile'. 2008-09-18 09:08:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f32fef1b07 * GC option `--max-atime' that specifies an upper limit to the last
accessed time of paths that may be deleted.  Anything more recently
  used won't be deleted.  The time is specified in time_t,
  e.g. seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC; use `date +%s' to
  convert to time_t from the command line. 

  Example: to delete everything that hasn't been used in the last two
  months:

  $ nix-store --gc -v --max-atime $(date +%s -d "2 months ago")
2008-09-17 14:52:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4af2fdba6d * Typo. 2008-09-17 13:00:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c987061aa4 * Some refactoring. Better output with `-v' for --use-atime. 2008-09-17 12:54:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 77afd97a99 * nix-store --gc / --delete: show how many store paths were deleted. 2008-09-17 12:53:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ab68961e4 * Garbage collector: added an option `--use-atime' to delete paths in
order of ascending last access time.  This is useful in conjunction
  with --max-freed or --max-links to prefer deleting non-recently used
  garbage, which is good (especially in the build farm) since garbage
  may become live again.

  The code could easily be modified to accept other criteria for
  ordering garbage by changing the comparison operator used by the
  priority queue in collectGarbage().
2008-09-17 10:02:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7933cdc6dc * When writing the user environment manifest, filter out non-string
attributes from the meta attribute.  Not doing so caused nix-env to
  barf on the "psi" package, which has a meta.function attribute,
  the textual serialisation of which causes a gigantic string to be
  produced --- so big that it causes nix-env to run out of memory.

  Note however that "meta" really only should contain strings.  
  meta.function should be passthru.function.
2008-09-02 09:21:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7718b19389 * Explicitly set PWD to prevent problems with chroot builds. In
particular, dietlibc cannot figure out the cwd because the inode of
  the current directory doesn't appear in .. (because getdents returns
  the inode of the mount point).
2008-08-27 17:20:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9cc0da8453 * Create a /tmp with 1777 permission in the chroot. Some builders
need a writable /tmp (they don't respect $TMPDIR).
2008-08-27 16:03:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 99dc3e613a * Require that __overrides is defined as a non-recursive attribute
(which means it can only be defined via "inherit"), otherwise we get
  scoping bugs, since __overrides can't be recursive (or at least, it
  would be hard).
2008-08-26 14:05:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d06be428f6 * Disable chroot builds for fixed-output derivations so that we don't
need /etc in the chroot (in particular, /etc/resolv.conf for
  fetchurl).  Not having /etc/resolv.conf in the chroot is a good
  thing, since we don't want normal derivations to download files.
2008-08-25 15:49:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra abec1c0004 * Evaluate attributes in sorted order for better determinism. 2008-08-25 14:31:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c4f1c2114b * Minor simplification. 2008-08-25 14:15:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 49829da8b4 * Doh. 2008-08-25 13:32:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b428adc267 * Strip off the `.nix' suffix from the attribute name for files in
~/.nix-defexpr,  otherwise the attribute cannot be selected with the
  `-A' option.  Useful if you want to stick a Nix expression directly
  in ~/.nix-defexpr.
2008-08-25 13:31:57 +00:00
Michael Raskin b7ff182b6e Fixing an obvious typo in override code. I do not know whether it works correctly after the change, but at least it ca nbe compiled now. 2008-08-14 22:01:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ca07f3e370 * Another experimental feature: a way to truly override attributes in
a rec.  This will be very useful to allow end-user customisation of
  all-packages.nix, for instance globally overriding GCC or some other
  dependency.  The // operator doesn't cut it: you could replace the
  "gcc" attribute, but all other attributes would continue to
  reference the original value due to the substitution semantics of
  rec.

  The syntax is a bit hacky but this is to allow backwards
  compatibility.
2008-08-14 16:59:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9279174dde * Added an experimental feature suggested by Andres: ellipses ("...")
in attribute set pattern matches.  This allows defining a function
  that takes *at least* the listed attributes, while ignoring
  additional attributes.  For instance,

    {stdenv, fetchurl, fuse, ...}:
    
    stdenv.mkDerivation {
      ...
    };
    
  defines a function that requires an attribute set that contains the 
  specified attributes but ignores others.  The main advantage is that
  we can then write in all-packages.nix

    aefs = import ../bla/aefs pkgs;

  instead of

    aefs = import ../bla/aefs {
      inherit stdenv fetchurl fuse;
    };

  This saves a lot of typing (not to mention not having to update
  all-packages.nix with purely mechanical changes).  It saves as much
  typing as the "args: with args;" style, but has the advantage that
  the function arguments are properly declared (not implicit in what
  the body of the "with" uses).
2008-08-14 14:00:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra db4f4a8425 * Backward compatibility check to prevent nixos-rebuild from barfing
when upgrading Nix.
2008-08-14 13:02:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1b962fc720 * @-patterns as in Haskell. For instance, in a function definition
f = args @ {x, y, z}: ...;

  `args' refers to the argument as a whole, which is further
  pattern-matched against the attribute set pattern {x, y, z}.
2008-08-14 12:53:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e818838412 * "pattern" non-terminal. 2008-08-14 10:14:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra efe4b690ae * Refactoring: combine functions that take an attribute set and
functions that take a single argument (plain lambdas) into one AST
  node (Function) that contains a Pattern node describing the
  arguments.  Current patterns are single lazy arguments (VarPat) and
  matching against an attribute set (AttrsPat).

  This refactoring allows other kinds of patterns to be added easily,
  such as Haskell-style @-patterns, or list pattern matching.
2008-08-14 10:04:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c03b729319 * Increase the sleep periods a bit to make the test less likely to
fail on slow machines.  Of course it would be better if this test
  wasn't timing dependent...
2008-08-14 09:26:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5664b6d7ba * Removed the "valid values" feature. Nobody uses it anyway. 2008-08-11 13:36:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 98b07466fb * Better error checking of the data from the substituters. 2008-08-05 10:57:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 339c142009 * Use optimistic profile locking for nix-env operations like `-i' and
`-u'.  Instead of acquiring an exclusive lock on the profile for the
  entire duration of the operation, we just perform the operation
  optimistically (without an exclusive lock), and check at the end
  whether the profile changed while we were busy (i.e., the symlink
  target changed).  If so, the operation is restarted.  Restarting is
  generally cheap, since the build results are still in the Nix store.
  Most of the time, only the user environment has to be rebuilt.
2008-08-04 16:21:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 001b3f06ec * `nix-env --set': support --dry-run. 2008-08-04 14:58:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a1d310b6b5 * `nix-store --realise': print what paths will be built/downloaded,
just like nix-env.
* `nix-store --realise': --dry-run option.
2008-08-04 13:44:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5adbb0aabe * build.cc: only use a substituter if it returns info for a path. 2008-08-04 13:15:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b1052663a * Always show what paths we're going to build/download (as in
--dry-run).  Maybe there should be an option to turn this on/off?
2008-08-04 13:11:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c4f98941ed * nix-env --dry-run: show the total size of the substituter
downloads.
2008-08-04 12:29:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 03427e76f1 * querySubstitutablePathInfo: work properly when run via the daemon.
* --dry-run: print the paths that we don't know how to build/substitute.
2008-08-04 11:44:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3c92ea399d * Make nix-env --dry-run print the paths to be substituted correctly
again.  (After the previous substituter mechanism refactoring I
  didn't update the code that obtains the references of substitutable
  paths.)  This required some refactoring: the substituter programs
  are now kept running and receive/respond to info requests via
  stdin/stdout.
2008-08-02 12:54:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fc691e1cbd * Print a better error message when a non-derivation attribute set is
coerced to a string.
2008-07-24 14:52:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 989176c56e * Allow read-only access to the store (e.g., non-root users on NixOS
can do operations like "nix-store -qR <path>" even without the Nix
  daemon).
2008-07-18 15:34:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8bc591a6f0 * Use the copy-from-other-stores substituter by default. Of course,
it only does something if $NIX_OTHER_STORES (not really a good
  name...) is set.
* Do globbing on the elements of $NIX_OTHER_STORES.  E.g. you could
  set it to /mnts/*/nix or something.
* Install substituters in libexec/nix/substituters.
2008-07-18 13:05:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7cd88b1dec * Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,
which is hopefully more useful.
* New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-11 13:29:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d567baabbd * Export the nix-env derivation name parsing and version comparison
logic through the `parseDrvName' and `compareVersions' primops.
  This will allow expressions to easily check whether some dependency
  is a specific needed version or falls in some version range.  See
  tests/lang/eval-okay-versions.nix for examples.
2008-07-01 10:10:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c8641a542 2008-06-18 19:17:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5af84139a8 * --max-freed: support values >= 4 GB. 2008-06-18 15:20:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d3aa183beb * Garbage collector: option `--max-freed' to stop after at least N
bytes have been freed, `--max-links' to stop when the Nix store
  directory has fewer than N hard links (the latter being important
  for very large Nix stores on filesystems with a 32000 subdirectories
  limit).
2008-06-18 14:20:16 +00:00